Read the full judgment text of HCMA 001141/1998 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 6 January 1999.
1. This is an appeal against sentence by the appellant who pleaded guilty in the North Kowloon Magistracy to an offence of simple possession of 0.20 grams of heroin. He was sentenced to a term of 9 months' imprisonment, the learned Magistrate having adopted a starting point of 12 months' imprisonment and reducing it by 1/4 for what he described as the appellant's "belated" plea of guilty.